Incredible Zimbabwe!

What a great day for Zimbabwe cricket.

They came out this morning and put a few more runs on the board. The tail fell away quite quickly though and they ended up 370 all out.

We had the match officials here in the OB van inspecting Raymond Price’s wicket. They wanted to see the real time version, the one you see at home, as well as any other angles which we had just to check that the decision made on-field was the correct one.  After some brief deliberation the decision was made. It’s great to see this sort of thing and the main motivation for the visit to the OB van is to improve the on-field umpire decision making process. This I think we can all agree on is a good thing for everybody. The decision by the match referee was that the on-field umpire had made the correct decision. A great example of using technology to improve cricketing standards.

Bangers and mash came out to bat and Mr. Vitori lived up to some of his hype and took two great wickets, quickity quick. In general Zimbabwe really look like they are on the up and up, in all sorts of ways.

Oh well, another long day in the field for both the OB crew and the cricketers. There is a lot of talk amongst the crew regarding the scandal that has broken at Cricket South Africa. Something about 68 million rand. We'll have to see what washes out there.

A few of us are off to play squash again this evening and we'll be going to bed dreaming of bangers getting smashed by tea time tomorrow. Hopefully this match will finish in three days and give us some time off.

The commentary area in its finished state.

Phillip, our satellite guy in his environment. He’s glad to have made it through the border.